MLB 09 The Show

#156
#156
does anybody have any tips on hitting? i dont know what it is but i just can't be consistant this year with my hitting. i will have one game where i go 4/4 and then got 4 games w/o a hit, so any advice is greatly appreciated
 
#157
#157
knoxvols20 said:
does anybody have any tips on hitting? i dont know what it is but i just can't be consistant this year with my hitting. i will have one game where i go 4/4 and then got 4 games w/o a hit, so any advice is greatly appreciated
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the first few weeks of playing i wasn't hitting all that well either and i don't know if was me getting better or what but after i started up another guy, i consistantly hit in the .350 range. the only advice i can really offer is being selective which took me a lot of patience. guessing your pitches right obviously helps but as far as stats, and i may be wrong, but it seems to help me when i add points to my vision rather than anything else. don't plan on getting many HRs in your first year so try using the contact swing rather than the power swing as much as you can and using the fly ball/ground ball inducing selectivly. you'll go through slumps and hot streaks where you're getting good pitches to hit so just be patient. something that i also changed was not using the left stick to aim the bat because if it's in the strike zone you'll hit it anyway but it won't always be a base hit. i know that wasn't much help but patience is the key, was for me at least. just hang in there.
 
#159
#159
I rented this game middle of last week and absolutely love it. I will have to buy it when I get a little extra $$. To say I was frustrated at first though would be a vast understatement. When I was first in AA with my 6'4 245 pound right fielder Beau Cambridge he only hit about .150 for the first month. Its the first time in YEARS that I got mad enough to almost toss a controller through the screen. Luckily for me I thought better of that knowing I couldn't get a new TV right now.

After I got a little better grasp of it I started hitting better and better. I love the realism of how some games you can't miss and some games you can't hit. I think in my AA year the best game I had was a 5/6 outing with 3 doubles and 2 singles but I drove in like 7 runs. Then a couple of games later I'd hit great balls and 3 separate times in the game fielders made incredible diving stops to get me out. Hitting my first homer was a great experience too. I didn't do it until July or so and it just barely cleared the fence. If that jackalope left fielder would have caught it over the wall I probably would have tossed the controller. He just missed it.

I let the game just draft me not picking a team and I got the Dodgers. I'm not really fond of them but don't hate them either so that's not so bad. So I was with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts my entire first season. I wound up getting my average to a little over .300 by the conclusion of the season.

In my second year that I'm working on right now I got moved up to the AAA Alberquerque (sp?) Isotopes. I'm in July batting .350 but only have 1 homer. I get a bunch of singles and really try to work the count. Since I started guessing pitches I've got much better at hitting. Plus I exercise patience now and don't swing at everything. Going 10 pitches into a count is pretty intense barely fighting off balls until you finally get a good pitch and loop it out over the shortstops head.

I'll have to take the rental back in a day or two but will buy the game soon. I would love to see how things go for my created player and then try to do it all over again with a pitcher. Haven't had this much fun with a baseball game since Baseball Stars or the original RBI Baseball on the NES.
 
#161
#161
it's got to be the best baseball if not best game out in a while. i play one of my guys on just batting so a game takes 5 mins and next thing you know you've 5 minuted yourself into 2 more hours. it's easy to lose all track of time.
 
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